As the case of Chris Burch vs. Tory Burch—about which Vanessa Grigoriadis dishes in our December issue—lumbers toward trial, the various legal reps had a scheduling hearing on November 1. And at that conference, it was revealed that the judge, the Honorable Leo E. Strine Jr. of the Court of Chancery in Delaware, is indeed more colorful than the Skittles explosion that is C. Wonder’s SoHo windows. Fashion folks have already cited passages of the hearing transcript, in which Judge Strine asks about the Burches being Wasps—“I’ve been deep in . . . an autumnal Cheever phase,” he offers by way of explanation—but the gentleman hadso much more passion attending his view of this case’s frivolity.

What follows are his driest, most dismissive remarks on the case of Burch vs. Burch. The full text of the hearing transcript is here:

As the attorneys launch into their spiel:

THE COURT: . . . I don't want to spoil the drama of the trial. Sit down.

THE COURT: How many stores are there for—what is this?—Wonder Bread, C. Wonder?

MR. ROSSMAN: C. Wonder, Your Honor.

THE COURT: C. Wonder.

THE COURT: . . . I guess I did this to myself, but somebody in the room started the other tradition of giving [me], for some reason . . . all the preppy clothier cases[.]

THE COURT: I'm sorry, but this is—this is not a case about intercontinental ballistic missiles.